E-learning intention of students with anxiety:Evidence from the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in China

Hu, Xuan and Zhang, Jiaqi and He, Shuang and Zhu, Ruilin and Shen, Shan and Liu, Bingsheng (2022) E-learning intention of students with anxiety:Evidence from the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in China. Journal of affective disorders, 309. pp. 115-122. ISSN 1573-2517

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need to address the mental health issues for the future adoption of e-learning among massive students in higher education. This study takes a lead to investigate whether and how general anxiety will influence college students' e-learning intention to provide knowledge to better improve the e-learning technology. We adopted the Technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine the difference between students with and without general anxiety in the e-learning intention where the students are classified based on the General Anxiety Disorder-2 scale. The model is empirically analyzed based on a survey of 512 college students in China regarding their e-learning experience in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results demonstrate that the TAM is powerful in explaining the e-learning intention among college students with general anxiety. Besides, all effects associated with perceived usefulness (PU) are reinforced while those associated with perceived ease of use (PEOU) are attenuated in the anxiety group. The results suggest that instructors and higher education institutions should take advantage of the significant PU-intention relationship by providing quality e-learning, which is paramount to coping with the general anxiety among students. This study provides a prototype attempt to investigate the influence of anxiety on e-learning where the different types of anxiety sources are synthesized. However, anxiety can stem from internal sources (computer anxiety, academic stress) and external sources (fear of the virus, lack of social interaction), which requires further investigations.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of affective disorders
Additional Information:
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Affective Disorders. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Affective Disorders, 309, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.04.121
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2738
Subjects:
?? ANXIETYGADCOVID-19E-LEARNINGTAMCLINICAL PSYCHOLOGYPSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH ??
ID Code:
170892
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Deposited On:
27 May 2022 14:25
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Yes
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